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| User: | amberite (147395) 
the Adventures of Lard-Bucket in China
until the homecoming
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| Name: | Sullied and unusual |
| Website: | chaosbutterfly.net: writings, links, t-shirts |
| Location: | Portland, Oregon, United States |
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| amberite | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| AOL IM: |  thechaosfairy (Add Buddy, Send Message) |
| ICQ UIN: |  53199477 (User Profile) |
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| Bio: | "Are you human?" he asked, still gripping my hand, no special expression on his face.
I started in on a grin, then threw it away.
"I don't know. I -- I like to think so. But I don't really -- Of course I am! That's a silly . . . Oh hell! You really mean it, don't you? And I said I'd be honest. . . ." I chewed my lip and thought for a moment. Then, "I don't think so," I said.
"Neither do I," he said, and he smiled. "It doesn't make any real difference to me, but I thought it might to you -- to know that someone knows you are different and doesn't care."
--Roger Zelazny, Sign of the Unicorn
I am, depending on your (my) point of view, an eccentric gentleman in a much-loved Live Nude Girl with some adaptations, or a very odd female-born creature conducting an on-and-off social and medical experiment. I prefer gender-neutral pronouns. If you don't know how to use gender-neutral pronouns, enjoy the Wikipedia guide. Of the ones listed there, I prefer Xe/xir/xem or Zie/zir/zim, pronounced largely the same as each other, but if you have your own language you prefer to use, then go ahead and use it.
Normally I live in Portland with, loosely speaking, my wife and husband and our cats. Right now I live in Yangzhou, China, missing my wife and husband and our cats. See tags: "china", "teaching", "zhonglish". I'm teaching English, in case you were wondering. I will be back to Portland in June.
The "Lard Bucket" thing is from a tag on a pair of undershorts I picked up -- Men's XL in Chinese sizes! -- labeled "lard-bucket's briefs." I'm a small-to-medium in American man sizes. I am very amused.
I have a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing, which means that: (a) I was willing to borrow fantastic amounts of money from the government in order to rent myself a couple of years to work on my writing; (b) my peers think my creative & critical writing is decent, and I don't hit the FAIL button too many times on deadlines and paperwork. And, by equal parts chance and perseverance, I made contact with some wonderful people who put me in contact with the agent who is now my agent. I am hoping for an Exciting Future (tm).
I'm trying to keep this separate from my real-name blog, and thus from my writing, but if you want to know, just ask. I tend to post connections between the two under lock. My stories fall into two categories: publishable under most copyright law, and not so. The ones you will find on the internet are not so. They usually involve characters from Doctor Who and other media. Writing fan fiction has improved my "real" writing immeasurably and I don't plan to stop.
I like drinking dutch cocoa with almost no sugar and with the spoon in the cup.
I have a tattoo inspired by Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock.
I sometimes read the journals on my list, and other times don't: there are many, many things in my day, and not nearly enough brain cells for all of them. So if there's something important -- let me know. Similarly, just because I don't read and comment regularly doesn't mean I don't like you, so if you're in my area or I'm in yours, leave a note or call me up and we can have coffee.
Never settle for less than what you're worth.
And never let anyone tell you you're worth less than you are.
A locked but not very locked post containing more information splat from the old version of this profile is here.
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| Memories: | 11 entries |
| Pictures: | over 40 public |
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| Schools: | Miskatonic University - Arkham, MA (1999 - 2002)
Foothill College - Los Altos Hills, CA (1999 - 2003)
Evergreen State College - Olympia, WA (2004 - 2005)
University of Southern Maine - Portland - Portland, ME (2005 - 2007)
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